Alvin Ashcraft's Morning Dew

 

Web Development

• Adding OpenID to Your Web Site in Conjunction with ASP.NET Membership (Dan Hounshell)
• Showing Some MVC Support (Jimmy Bogard)
• ASP.NET MVC Tip #21 – Fake the Data Context (Stephen Walther)

 

Silverlight

• Brad Abrams – Program Manager .NET Framework on Silverlight and .NET (Schalk Neethling)
• Bubbly Skin Updated for Beta 2 (Corrina Barber)
• Silverlight 2 + NHibernate.LINQ == Sweet (Shawn Wildermuth)

 

.NET / Visual Studio

• StructureMap: Medium-Level Usage Scenarios (Chad Myers)
• Exposing Custom Performance Counters in .NET (Sasha Goldshtein)
• Lambda and Scope in C# (Leon)

 

Design / Methodology

• Too-Smart-Business-Object Anti-Pattern (Gunnar Peipman)
• Ward’s Wiki Is Still a Great Resource (Jeremy D. Miller)
• Bellware Driven Design (Greg Young)
• Patterns for Using Distributed Hash Tables (Oren Eini)

 

Miscellaneous

• Distributed in Memory Cache / Storage (Oren Eini)
• PowerShell Laptop Stickers (Jeffrey Snover)
• Live Mesh Tutorial: Synchronizing Windows Live Messenger Content (Chris)
• Local Tweets on AIR (Sarah Perez)
• New Show: Countdown to PDC2008 (Mike Swanson)

 

Link-O-Rama

• New and Notable 253 (Sam Gentile)
• Interesting Finds: July 19, 2008 (Jason Haley)
• Everyman Links for July 20, 2008 (Dave Burke)

 

Book of the Day

 

 

Requirements Debate

• It’s Not the Client’s Job to Know What He Needs – It’s Our Job to Find Out (Jeffrey Palermo)
• Doctors We Ain’t (Dave Laribee)

 

Design / Methodology

• Separation of Concerns By Example: Part 4 (Jimmy Bogard)
• Ward Bell and I Wade Into O/R Mapping Issues (Jeremy D. Miller)
• How Microsoft’s p&p Teams Do Daily Standup Meetings (Ade Miller)
• Too Much Quality (Jacob Proffitt)
• Enterprise Architect – Joke or Joker? (Richard Veryard)
• Practical Concurrency Patterns: Read-Write Cache and Practical Concurrency Patterns: Thread-Local Cache (Sasha Goldshtein)
• Channel 9 – C# 4.0: Meet the Design Team (Granville Barnett)

 

.NET / Visual Studio

• #region. Sliced Bread or Sliced Worms? (Eric Gunnerson)
• Aspects of Functional Programming in C# Presentation and Code (Matthew Podwysocki) – Link of the Day
• Anonymous Delegates, How I Love Thee (Josh Twist)
• Very Simple .NET Thumbnail Creation Code (Brad Abrams)
• CLR Security Team CodePlex Site (Shawn F.)
• Looking at EF Performance – Some Surprises (Julie Lerman)
• Mocking Expensive Template Methods (Davy Brion)
• Back to Basics – Everyone Remember Where We Parked (That Memory)! (Scott Hanselman)
• 5 Things I Like Better About NetBeans Than Visual Studio (Jim Hoffman)
• Scrubbing Null Values From a DataReader (John Papa)
• How to Navigate Around Your Code in Visual Studio (Ged Mead)
• Mastering F# Lists (Chris Smith)
• Identity Framework for .NET (René Løhde)
• MSDN Code Gallery – Functional C# – Release: v0.1 (Matthew Podwysocki)

 

Silverlight / WPF

• Learning WPF with BabySmash – MVC or MVP and the Benefits of a Designer (Scott Hanselman)
• How About Some LIVE Silverlight Service Debugging? (Tim Heuer)
• Animation Hands on Lab for Silverlight 2 (Adam Kinney)

 

Web Development

• ASP.NET MVC Tip #17 – How to Run an ASP.NET MVC Application (Stephen Walther)
• SubSonic: New Code Samples and a SubStage Walkthrough (Rob Conery)
• Static Singletons for ASP.NET Controls (Rick Strahl)

 

Database

• SQL Server 2008 – Introduction to SPARSE Columns (Pinal Dave)
• Installing Clustered SQL Servers – Outline, Checklists, Document Sheets (Chad Boyd)
• Observations on Embedded Databases (Oren Eini)

 

Events / Community

• Community Megaphone Plug-In for Windows Live Writer (Frank La Vigne)
• Find Nearby Events with Windows Live Writer Search Mobile and Community Megaphone (G. Andrew Duthie)
• NINE Questions with Rachel Appel (Chris Williams)

 

Miscellaneous

• My First-Hand Experience with Microsoft Surface (Archis Gore)
• The Saga of an Ultimate Virtualization Rig: Part 3 (Andrew Connell)
• Windows XP Ain’t the Only OS Retiring This Year: Goodbye Windows 3.11 (Brad Linder)
• The Phone Screen (Alex Mueller)

 

Link-O-Rama

• Daily Find #87 (Tim Boland)
• Link Listing – July 9, 2008 and Link Listing – July 10, 2008 (Christopher Steen)
• Double Shot #245 (Mike Gunderloy)
• Interesting Finds: July 10, 2008 and Interesting Finds: July 11, 2008 – Early Edition (Jason Haley)
• LINKBLOG for July 10, 2008 (Arjan Zuidhof)
• Links (7/10/2008) (Steve Pietrek)
• Visual Studio Links #49 (Darren Stokes)
• Silverlight Cream for July 11, 2008 (Dave Campbell)
• The Morning Brew #134 (Chris Alcock)

 

Book of the Day

 

 

.NET / Visual Studio

• An Amazing Introduction to NDepend (Patrick Smacchia)
• VB.NET: The Ugly Duckling (Tony Davis)
• DimeCast #20 – Testing Abstract Classes with Rhino Mocks (Derik Whittaker)
• A Sneak Preview of Typemock Racer : Thread Deadlock Finder and Non Paged CLR Host (Roy Osherove)
• Mocking the LINQ to SQL Data Context (Andrew Tokeley)
• Code Generation in Visual Studio Using T4 Templates – Screencast and Sample (David Hayden)
• Keeping LINQ Code Healthy (K. Scott Allen)
• Use This NHibernate Wrapper to Keep Your Repository Classes Simple (Jeffrey Palermo)

 

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Spartan Programming (Jeff Atwood)
• Design Patterns – A Deep Dive 3 (Sunny Chaganty)
• Taking on Dependencies (Eric Gunnerson)
• Super Models, Part 2: Avoid Mutators (Dave Laribee)
• Testing the NuSoft Framework (Joel Ross)

 

Silverlight / WPF

• Tip: Maximal and Minimal Zoom Level in the MultiscaleImage Control (Martin Mihaylov)
• Tip of the Day #15 – Communicating Between JavaScript and Silverlight (Mike Snow)
• Using Silverlight to Create a Video Player (David)
• Tutorial on Styles & Templates Now Available (Jesse Liberty)
• Silverlight 2 Beta 2 Video Blog: TooltipService and Custom ToolTip (Corey Miller)
• Newton Physics Extensions for WPF (Chris Cavanagh)

 

Web Development

• ASP.NET MVC Tip #15 – Pass Browser Cookies and Server Variables as Action Parameters (Stephen Walther)
• Three Quick Ways to Avoid Widows (Karl Swedberg)
• Deploying ASP.NET MVC on ASP.NET 2.0 (Scott Hanselman) – Link of the Day
• Advanced ASP.NET AJAX Server Controls (Joe Stagner)
• SubSonic 2.1 Released (Rob Conery)
• User Input in Sheep’s Clothing (Phil Haack)

 

SharePoint

• Custom Event Content Type (Becky Bertram)
• Branding SharePoint – Part 3: Changing the Look and Feel of SharePoint Components – Intro and Web Parts (Heather Solomon)

 

SQL Server

• Did You Know the History of SQL Server? (Kalen Delaney)

 

Miscellaneous

• jpboodhoo.com Launches (finally)!! (Jean-Paul S. Boodhoo)
• Everyone Could Use a SecondBrain (Bob Walsh)
• 3 More Ways to Supercharge Firefox (Mike Gunderloy)
• The Microsoft Certified Architect Program (Bill Zack)
• Recipe for Making an MVP (Charles Sterling)

 

Link-O-Rama

• Daily Find #85 (Tim Boland)
• Interesting Finds: July 8, 2008 and Innovation Notes: July 8, 2008 (Jason Haley)
• LINKBLOG for July 8, 2008 (Arjan Zuidhof)
• Links (7/8/2008) (Steve Pietrek)
• Silverlight News for July 9. 2008 (Ivan Dragoev)
• Silverlight Cream for July 8, 2008 — #320 (Dave Campbell)
• The Morning Brew #132 (Chris Alcock)

 

Book of the Day